Drawing on varied methodological perspectives and disciplinary traditions, and engaging researchers from other LSE departments (including Media and Communications, Methodology, Psychological and Behavioural Science), the group holds a weekly research seminar throughout the academic year and hosts visiting scholars from across the UK and abroad.
Faculty members from the Political Behaviour Group are world leading experts in their field, regularly appear on national and international media, have been awarded numerous competitive research grants and fellowships from national and international funding bodies, and teach across the Department of Government Department's various BSc and MSc programmes.
Political Behaviour Seminar Series
The Political Behaviour Seminar is supported by the Department of Government and is open to all members of the LSE community.
Thursdays, 16:00-17:00, via zoom. If you would like to join, please email gov.comms@lse.ac.uk for login details.
Michaelmas Term
- 1 October 2020
Chris Anderson (LSE)
Public Authority and Private Compliance During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- 8 October 2020
Anja Neundorf (University of Glasgow)
Can Online Civic Education Induce Democratic Citizenship? Experimental Evidence from a New Democracy
- 15 October 2020
Adam Zelizer (University of Chicago)
Sour Notes? The Effects of Fiscal Research on Legislators' Support for Legislation
- 22 October 2020
Raluca Pahontu (LSE)
The Democrat Disaster: Hurricane Exposure, Risk Aversion and Insurance Demand
- 29 October 2020
Samara Klar (University of Arizona)
Biased Evaulations of Sexual Misconduct in Politics and the Mitigating Role of the #MeToo Movement
- 12 November 2020
Asli Cansunar (University of Oxford)
The Education Dilemma: Favoring the In-Group or Assimilating the Out-Group
- 19 November 2020
Maria Sobolewska and Rob Ford (University of Manchester)
Brexitland. Identity Conflict in British Politics
- 26 November 2020
Denis Cohen (University of Mannheim)
TBC
- 3 December 2020
Steffen Hertog (LSE)
Great expectations or nothing to lose? Socio-economic correlates of joining the Islamic State
- 10 December 2020
Dawn Teele (University of Pennsylvania)
What do we know about the historical Gender Gap?
Lent Term
- 21 January 2021
Andy Guess (Princeton)
- 28 January 2021
Sarah Khan (Yale)
- 4 February 2021
Sarah Wallace Goodman (University of California, Irvine) and Tom Pepinsky (Cornell)
- 11 February 2021
Ray Dutch (Oxford)
- 25 February 2021
Saad Gulzar (Stanford)
- 4 March 2021
Hanna Kleider (King's College London)
Michaelmas Term
- 3 October 2019
Tinghua Yu (LSE): Polarization, Intrinsic Motivation, and Political Selection: Theory and Evidence from State Supreme Courts
- 10 October 2019
Moritz Osnabruegge and Sara Hobolt (LSE): Playing to the Gallery: How Politicians Use Emotive Rhetoric in Parliament
- 17 October 2019
Jack Blumenau (UCL)
Measuring the Persuasive Power of Political Arguments
- 24 October 2019
Malu Gatto (UCL)
- 31 October 2019
Florian Foos (LSE)
- 14 November 2019
Ryan Enos (Harvard)
Childhood Cross-ethnic Exposure Predicts Political Behaviour Seven Decades Later: Evidence from Linked Administrative Data
- 21 November 2019
Dominik Duell (Essex)
How Descriptive Representation Increases Labor Market Participation
- 28 November 2019
Daniel Bischof (Zurich)
The Political Repercussions of Cutting Placed-Based Compensation Policies
- 5 December 2019
Ryan Bakker (Essex)
New Measure of Issue Salience: Reassessing the Ideological Positions of Political Parties in Europe
- 12 December 2019
David Broockman (Stanford)
Lent Term
- 30 January 2020
Vera Mironova (Harvard)
- 6 February 2020
Launch of the Electoral Psychology Observatory
- 13 February 2020
Kostantinos Matakos (KCL)
Principles and Outcomes - A Test of Revealed Social Preferences
- 20 February 2020 - Updated room: CBG 2.03
Markus Wagner (Vienna)
- 27 February 2020
Michael Laver (NYU)
Government Formation with Incomplete Information
- 6-7 March 2020
Behavioural Political Economy Workshop
Summer Term (via Zoom)
- 21 May 2020
Catherine de Vries (Bocconi)
The Effects of a Wall: Gender Attitudes and Political Gender Gaps in Unified Germany
- 28 May 2020
Katharina Lawall (LSE)
Negative Partisanship and its implications for political behaviour - evidence from a survey experiment in Canada
- 4 June 2020
Ben Seyd (Kent)
Political Knowledge and Electoral Choice
- 11 June 2020
Olav Dahlgaard (Copenhagen Business School)
Must Voters Choose Between Political Competence and Descriptive Representation?
- 18 June 2020
Chris Wratil (UCL)
Parties and Populism: How Poor Representation Activates Populist Attitudes
- 25 June 2020
Patrick Sturgis (LSE)